Case file · Folklore / legend
The Tapani incident and invulnerability talismans
Yu Qingfang, preaching from a temple in Tainan, promised followers that divine talismans would make them bulletproof; their 1915 uprising against Japanese rule was crushed at Tapani.
1915 CE · 23.12, 120.46 · status: official
The account
The colonial courts sentenced hundreds to death. It was the largest armed revolt by Han Taiwanese against Japan.